I think we are in the Growth stage, as more and more people are hearing about Crypto, but there still is a big gap in the involving decision. For instance, a lot of people hear about it, talk about it, but until they understand it there is a long way to go.
2017 will be considered as a historic year for the cypto currency because as soon as it 10k and then rise till 18k quickly it caught attention of every one in the world and all news channel and experts started to speak about it. Thus 2018 and coming years will bring many more growth stories for different coins which would be new btc in making of altocins.